Welcoming Statement

ERUUF is committed to the inclusion of every person. All are welcome here without regard to race, ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or economic status, in accord with UU Principles. We are a UUA “Welcoming Congregation.”

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Welcome to this inclusive community where we embrace people of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and stages of life. We'd love to show you around.

Radical Inclusivity

Instead of a creed, Unitarian Universalists share a spirit and vision of radical inclusivity, individual agency, and social justice. We create a safe space to stand out, stand up, and change your mind, particularly during life's transitions. We embrace personal discovery and growth through learning, engagement, and service. Our only doctrine is love.Victoria Mitchell

Interdependence

We need each other. Each of us is responsible for what happens on this earth. We are each absolutely essential, each totally irreplaceable. Leonard Peltier

Love

It is love that fashions us into the fullness of our being—not our looks, not our work, not our wants, not our achievements, not our parents, not our status, not our dreams. ... it is love: who we love, how we love, why we love, and that we love which ultimately shapes us. Daphne Rose Kingma

Hope

One can never understand what hope is really about unless one wrestles with despair. The same is true with faith. There has to be some serious doubt, otherwise faith becomes merely a dogmatic formula, an orthodoxy, a way of evading the complexity of life, rather than a way of engaging honestly with life. Cornel West

Remember how it feels when ERUUF’s ministers say the words in your heart that you couldn’t express? The stirring music and our amazing choirs? The children’s story and their spontaneous, wise responses? And all the unique ways ERUUF’s programs and community activism have inspired you?

The Annual Pledge Drive gives members and friends an opportunity to generously support ERUUF’s mission, ministry and programs, and our combined pledges create ERUUF’s budget for fiscal year 2018-2019.

All of us together - members and friends along with staff - form the beating heart of ERUUF, and it's time once again to check our Pulse! The ERUUF Board of Trustees would like feedback about life at ERUUF. The Pulse Survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and is open from February 1st through February 28th. Our Board and staff use this information to help guide the Congregation’s efforts going forward. This year, the Pulse Survey includes some focused questions about ERUUF's strategic goal of becoming a Green Sanctuary. Come by the table at Coffee Hour to chat with members of the Committee on the Evaluation of Ministry who will arrange for you to complete the survey on the spot or click link below. Questions? Contact Julie Edmunds, .

Nevertheless, We Persist in NC

by Rev. Deborah Cayer

Are you ready for this year’s HKonJ? I sure am. The acronym stands for the NC NAACP’s “Historic Thousands (Roman numeral K) on Jones (Street) in Raleigh. In a couple weeks on Saturday, February 10 we can expect to meet up on Jones with several thousand fellow North Carolinians to let our elected officials know that we are vigilant about civil rights for every person, and we’re not letting any slip away without a fight.

We’ve been here before. In blistering heat, howling wind, pouring rain, bitter cold, we’ve persistently shown up for civil rights time and again, whenever we were needed, which infuriatingly has been much too often in the past several years.

On February 25, following the second service coffee hour, the ERUUF Durham CAN team will be holding a listening session for the congregation with a focus on availability of and access to jobs and employment in Durham. Please save the date and plan to be there. Durham CAN has kicked off their jobs campaign for 2018 and the first step is hearing from congregations that are members of Durham CAN. Our stories are what will help shape the focus of this campaign.

Wednesday Connections provide beloved community for a growing number of folks at ERUUF, whether joining in the potluck dinner, or spending quiet time in reflection during Vespers or taking part in one of several classes. New classes continue to be added to the list. Pre-registration is needed

Intentionally, on Purpose

by Rev. Deborah Cayer, Lead Minister

The sky this new year has been the pure, clear blue that comes when arctic air rushes down from the North Pole and sweeps it clean. It appears overhead like a bright fresh page that could hold any great vision, every resolution and best intention. But once imagined up above the fray of our everyday world, how do we bring these visions and ideals down to earth, and make them real amid the chaos and mess of regular life?

Over 450 people attended in joyful celebration as the members of ERUUF ordained Jacqueline Yvonne Cantey Brett on November 12. During the ceremony, Jacqueline was officially given the title of Reverend Brett, and received a beautiful stole created by members of ERUUF's Spiritual Threads group. The Beloved Community Chorus got every one up and singing in shared community, while special music ...

The most recent Durham CAN public assembly took place at Mount Level Missionary Baptist Church on October 26. At least 30 representatives of ERUUF were present. The candidates for mayor and city council were invited to hear about and support Durham CAN's agenda for change. All the candidates as well as several city officials who were not up for election attended. The assembly included over 600 people from congregations and neighborhoods of Durham.

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Sunday Services: 9:15 & 11:15 am

March 18, 2018

Left to Our Own Devices

Rev.Cayer, Worship leader

This morning we’ll look at the ways we use social media personally and socially for better or worse, and consider how we might tip the balance toward the common good. Jim McCrae, Worship Associate. Avante will perform special music.